The System Had Dug a Huge Pit Over the Order of Deaths

In the tranquil environment, even the sound of the wind became very clear. Yu Xing walked back through the passage without encountering any obstacles and returned to the prayer hall.

In the blink of an eye, the Female Ghost had vanished, along with her severed limbs and splattered blood, disappearing completely as if she had never existed.

Seeing that the Female Ghost had been "refreshed," Yu Xing was a little curious about where Female Ghost was now. Could it be that as long as he wasn't watching, the Female Ghost could infinitely respawn here and return with full health?

Tsk, that's really cheating.

He cursed under his breath, then took the key he had just found and headed towards the church door, while pondering the questions on the exam paper.

He already had a good grasp of the first and second questions and shouldn't lose points on them. The third question, which required insight, was a small trap, and the points awarded would depend on the system's bias. The only thing he wasn't quite sure about was the order in which the family members died.

Yu Xing walked to the gate and listened intently. The Female Ghost made no sound; either she was too far away, she hadn't appeared yet, or she simply didn't want to provoke him anymore...

Satisfied, he inserted the key into the lock of the door, and with a slight click, the door loosened.

When he pushed open the door, he had already sorted out the existing clues for the third question.

This family, excluding Yu Wan, consists of three siblings and their parents, a total of five people. It is known that the mother killed the three siblings, and the father killed himself to seal the ghost. Therefore, the three siblings died first, and the order of death for the father and mother was fourth and fifth, but it is still unknown who died first.

Whether the mother was already dead when the father killed him, or the mother was still alive when the father died, it's all possible, but it certainly wouldn't affect the current situation.

As for the three siblings, judging from the current development of this hypothetical world, it seems that Ye Ming will be the first to die. In this world, the reason for death is not important. What really matters is the order of death: which of the three siblings was killed by their mother first, who was the second, and who survived to the end.

Judging from Ye Ting's notes in the spiritual world, Ye Ming was still the first to be chased and killed by the Female Ghost. Ye Ting also said that the "somewhat familiar young man" ran very fast, which shows that Ye Qin's physical fitness was much better than the other two in reality. In the real event, someone like him was the most likely to survive until the last one to die.

Yu Xing now leans towards the following order of death: Ye Ming, Ye Ting, Ye Qin, father, mother.

As for why he put his mother's death after his father's, it's because his father himself said that his mother was his dearest love, and he should also love his children when they were alive.

He could use his own flesh and blood as a seal, but that would only kill himself. If his mother were to die before him, it would be equivalent to killing his own "beloved" with his own hands. Would he really do that?

Yu Xing pushed open the church door. It was all gray and gloomy outside. He chuckled softly.

It's not that the father was great because of love. If he truly loved his family, he wouldn't have sealed them away in that small house forever. Even if he sacrificed himself, claiming it was to prevent his womanizing and mentally ill mother from harming more people, he could have simply sent his wife to a mental hospital for treatment so that his children could be reborn sooner.

He may have truly wanted to be with his family forever, but he chose this morbid and abnormal way, resulting in the worst possible outcome.

His love wasn't love; it was a morbid possessiveness.

In other words...

Yu Xing walked into the endless gray fog outside the building. Behind him, he finally heard the Female Ghost's voice again. The Female Ghost was crying, sobbing and mournful.

A mocking smile played on his lips, directed at the character of the father.

He felt that when his father sealed the house, he probably didn't kill his wife, but let her fend for herself.

The mother is the most likely candidate to starve to death.

Even when everything seemed normal, was Dad really good to Mom? Judging from the few words the Female Ghost uttered when she was injured, and the master bedroom that was heavily chained up, she was probably grounded by Dad and locked in her bedroom, not allowed to go out.

This is a conclusion Yu Xing reached based on the current clues and her analysis of the character's personality. It may not be correct... but at least Yu Xing herself agrees with it.

The gray mist swallowed his figure, and he felt his thoughts slowly break apart. A familiar drowsiness spread through his nerves, and he had little room to resist before he was lost in the thick fog and fell into a deep sleep.

When I woke up again, it was already morning.

Yu Xing felt stiff all over. Before he opened his eyes, he realized that he was in a sitting position and that the thing under his buttocks was hard, probably a piece of wood.

Once he regained his senses, he knew where he was; he was sitting in his own room, on the wooden chair he had placed in the center of the room.

He looked like he had slept in a chair all night; his whole body ached, especially his lower limbs, which were numb.

Yu Xing sensed a prying gaze, and when he turned his head to the side, he saw Ye Ting.

Ye Ting woke up before him, silently sat up in bed, and stared at him intently.

"Brother?" Ye Ting spoke first, her voice barely audible, tinged with a mixture of caution and uncertainty.

"It's me, I'm not crazy." Yu Xing knew that Ye Ting was probably checking to see if anything strange had happened after he touched the Yugi last night. Whether Ye Ting hoped he would become like Ye Ming or just wanted him to stay out of trouble for the time being, Yu Xing had to accept that she meant well.

"That's great, Second Brother." Ye Ting rolled out of bed and moved next to Yu Xing. Recalling what happened last night, she said to Yu Xing with some worry, "Second Brother, what do we do now? Should we go out and look for Eldest Brother?"

When she said "go out," she meant "leave the room."

Yu Xing nodded, her tone very gentle, and said in a comforting tone, "Of course we have to go out, but according to legend, people who become ghosts disappear during the day, so we won't be able to find them. But we must live our lives well."

"By the way, I think we should call the police," Yu Xing said.

He stood up under Ye Ting's gaze, stretched his body, and sensed something strange.

Did he sleep in this chair all day? Why does he feel like he's forgotten something?

"Okay, call the police," Ye Ting agreed, following Yu Xing towards the door. "You also need to call the school and tell them you're not going today."

"You're right, my sister is really amazing. She can still be so rational even at a time like this." Yu Xing casually patted Ye Ting's head and opened the door.

The corridor was a mess, with blood splattered everywhere. It was hard to imagine how long Ye Ming had been wandering outside last night.

Ye Ting clung to Yu Xing's arm in fear. Yu Xing comforted her and then told her to go to the bathroom to wash up.

The little girl hesitantly agreed, seemingly knowing that Ye Ming wouldn't appear during the day, and boldly went to the restroom alone.

Yu Xing then lowered her head, leaned against a clean wall, and pondered what had happened last night.

According to his current memory, after turning off the room lights and letting Ye Ming leave last night, he took Ye Ting's Yugi and collected a lot of new information and clues in the Yugi. After that... did he go to sleep?

No, there's a gap in his memory. He doesn't remember when he put down the Yugi and then fell into a deep sleep in the chair. He had just checked the Yugi, and it was neatly placed on the bedside table. Ye Ting clearly hadn't gotten out of bed yet, so it was impossible for her to take the Yugi from his hands without him noticing and then put it back on the bedside table.

He must have forgotten something.

Just as he discovered yesterday, this deduction has the ability to influence the thinker's mind... What was it about yesterday that he discovered this?

Alright, this crucial thing that's easily forgotten has indeed been forgotten by him again in a short time. But knowing Yu Xing as he does, he certainly wouldn't let this happen. He must have done something last night to remind himself of this today.

Or perhaps he doesn't need to do anything extra to quickly recall the way he regained his memories.

Let's first consider whether we can identify any anomalies by tracking our own movements.

While keeping an eye on what was happening in the restroom, Yu Xing silently pondered.

The only way he could discover something was amiss, as far as he could remember, was through the data sheet in the Yugi. His memory of the contents of the data sheet was already hazy. Sure enough, if he just reopened the Yugi and looked at the data file, he should be able to reach the same conclusion as last night and thus remember what he had forgotten!

Having figured this out, Yu Xing was no longer in a hurry. He patiently waited for Ye Ting to finish washing up before going to the bathroom himself.

Go to the toilet, brush your teeth, wash your face, look in the mirror.

Yu Xing saw a haggard but young face.

Dark circles covered her eyes. He reached up and wiped the blood off the mirror, then rinsed his hand under the tap. He then reached into his pocket and pulled out a few pieces of paper.

He noticed something extra in his pocket when he went to the toilet, but because he was in a vulnerable position while using the toilet, he didn't bother with it for the time being to avoid any uncontrollable incidents.

Now he took out a few sheets of paper, unfolded them, and saw four Death Notice.

"Death Notice?" Yu Xing murmured silently. This was clearly something outside his memory, but when he held the notice in his hand, he vaguely remembered being in a dark church and having a face-to-face confrontation with Female Ghost.

Did he make the Female Ghost cry?

He rubbed his temples, feeling that he hadn't had a proper look at the four forms last night because of the poor lighting, so he needed to read them carefully now.

Looking at it this way, we have an unexpected gain.

He saw the order in which these four people died.

More memories flooded back. He remembered that he had obtained the papers from a hidden door behind the statue, and he also remembered everything that happened after he entered the church. However, he still didn't know why he had entered the church in the first place.

In short, a real-life horror Yugi gave him the most important clue. For anyone else, without taking the axe and restricting the Female Ghost's movements like he did, opening the secret door and entering it while being chased by the Female Ghost would have been an almost impossible task. Such a high level of difficulty justifies the four Death Notice that revealed the time of death.

Yu Xing suddenly realized that the Death Notice meant that after her mother attacked her three siblings, they had at least been taken to the hospital. It was highly likely that they did not die on the spot, but were taken to the hospital and died despite all efforts to save them.

The dates are printed on these forms.

It wasn't an obvious notice like "The patient died at a certain time due to ineffective resuscitation, otherwise he would have noticed it last night," but rather a discrepancy in the printing times of the forms themselves.

Normal printing doesn't leave the printing time on the paper, but in this simulation, presumably for the purpose of the exam paper and as a reward for the participants who proved their ability by finding a way to enter the secret door, the system designed the printing time to be placed in the lower right corner of the back of the paper.

The ink stains are very faint, almost as if they've faded to the point of disappearing, and the font is extremely small; you could easily miss them if you didn't look closely.

On the four sheets of paper, the first time printed was [21:03], followed by [22:41], [22:46], and [23:08].

Ye Ting was confirmed dead shortly after 9 p. m.

Around 10:40, Ye Qin and Yu Wan died within five minutes of each other, and Ye Ming died around 11:00.

Yu Xing's pupils contracted; this order was just too ridiculous.

If we hadn't received this paper, we would have been misled by all our experiences into believing that Ye Ming was the first to die. Who would have thought that Ye Ming was the one who held on the longest in the hospital?

Yes, the plot has been misleading the interpreters.

His previous reasoning wasn't wrong, but it was the order in which his mother chopped him down. Most people would subconsciously assume that being chopped down means death, but that kind of setting only exists in Yugi!

In the real world, people lying in a pool of blood don't necessarily die on the spot. After being taken to the hospital, they will fight against death through surgery!

The order of death should be the order in which patients fail to respond to hospital resuscitation efforts and completely lose vital signs. In this respect, Ye Ting, who seemed to be in poor health and unable to attend school, should be the first to die, which is the most reasonable explanation.

Whether by telepathy or not, Ye Qin and Yu Wan both died within five minutes of each other.

Ye Ming persisted until after 11 p. m.

This hole... it's huge.

Yu Xing stared at the papers. He should have realized this sooner; if this murder hadn't been discovered, how could there have been Death Notice from the hospital?

He hoped his team members would definitely enter the secret door. Even if Zhao Mou completed all the steps in the Yugi, they had to find a way to lure the Female Ghost into the secret door. It didn't matter if they lost four bars of health; they had to obtain this crucial evidence. The third question was worth sixty points, and if they answered it wrong, they wouldn't even pass.

He put the Death Notice back in his pocket and left the restroom.

Ye Ting was waiting for him outside. The little girl seemed too scared to go downstairs alone and stood helplessly in the blood-stained corridor.

Yu Xing couldn't see his own footprints on the ground, otherwise he could have followed them to find out where he went last night before entering the church.

"Second brother, are you going downstairs to call the school?" Ye Ting tugged at Yu Xing's sleeve.

"Mm." Yu Xing nodded and led Ye Ting down the stairs.

They all woke up very early today, even earlier than usual for school. Yu Xing came to the landline, thought for a moment, and decided not to call the school first. Instead, she calculated the time and called Yu Wan school yet.

The call was quickly answered, and a middle-aged woman's voice came from the other end. "Hello? Is this Xiaoming or Xiaoqin?"

It's clear that Ye Ming and Ye Qin frequently call Yu Wan's house.

"It's me, Ye Qin. Hello, Auntie." Yu Xing guessed that the person answering the phone was Yu Wan's mother and greeted her politely.

"Xiaoqin, what's up calling so early? Are you looking for Wanwan?" The aunt on the other end of the line was very kind to Yu Xing, and her tone was familiar.

Yu Xing said, "Yes, I'm looking for Yu Wan. Could you let her answer the phone?"

Soon, Yu Wan was moved to the receiver.

The two knew about yesterday's agreement. Yu Xing listened Yu Wan sent her mother away on the other end of the phone, then asked somewhat nervously, "Ye Qin, what happened!"

"... Yu Wan." Yu Xing revealed a hint of vulnerability and panic, took two deep breaths, and then continued, "My brother... he's dead."